
Business in Banfora (Cascades, Burkina Faso)
Transport and Foreign Trade in Banfora, capital of the Burkinabe Cascades region
Banfora (South-West of
Burkina Faso) is the capital of
the
Cascades
region(West Africa)
- Population of Banfora: 167,251 inhabitants
- Main economic activities in Banfora: sugar cane industry, mangoes drying,
transport, tourism and mineral water
production
- The main ethnicities in Banfora are the Karaboro, the Gouin, the Turka and the Senufo

The businesswoman Minata Kone. Source: Ecodufaso
Transport and logistics
- Banfora has a significant economic potential thanks to its strategic
location, the city is on the cross-border axis SKBO
- Sikasso: the second city of Mali by population
- Korhogo: the fourth city of Ivory Coast (569 kilometres from Abidjan)
- Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
-
Railway: Abidjan (Ivory
Coast)- Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
- Distances from Banfora to:
- Ouagadougou: 450 kilometres
- Bobo-Dioulasso: 85 kilometres (National Road N7)
- Ivorian Border: 50 kilometres
- Banfora is near the border of Mali
Burkina Faso (Banfora)

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- Tourist places in Banfora: Karfiguela Waterfalls, Tengrela Lake (hippopotamus),
Fabédougou Canyons, Sindou Peaks.
- Banfora was created in 1903 (French military post)
- Elevation of Banfora: 270 m
- Area of Banfora: 934 km²
- Burkinabe Province: Comoé (the country of black peasant)
- Burkinabe Department: Banfora
- Villages: Bodadiougou, Bombora, Diarabakoko, Dionouna, Diongolo, Karfiguéla, Kitobama, Korogora, Lémouroudougou, Marébama, Nékanklou, Niankar, Niarebama, Siniéna, Sitiéna, Tangora, Tengrela, Tiempagora, Tiékouna, Tionouna, Toumousséni, Tiontionmana
Main companies in Banfora:
- New Sugar Company of Comoé (sugar cane cultivation and soft sugar production, 3,000 workers), controls the Alcohol Production Company
- Society of Fibres and Textiles (SOFITEX group)
- Big Mills of Burkina (flour of wheat, flour, corn and food for
cattle)
- Tecno Pump Society (bandji production, juice extracted from the palmyra)
- Cashew Industrial Transformation Society (SOTRIA-B), created by Mrs.
Minata Kone
- KOUNA Farm (chickens)

Banfora (Burkina)
Banfora (Burkina)
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